World's Largest Crab Cake Weighs 300 Pounds

Summer is quickly drawing to a close and so is the east coast's blue crab season. One Maryland crab company decided to top off the season by building the world's largest crab cake, beating its own record in the process.

Handy International

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Handy International's gigantic cake was over 3 feet in diameter and 7 1/2 inches high. It took 9 hours to cook and six men to carefully hoist the 300 pounds of crabmeat, which smoked the previous record of 253 pounds in 2009. The final product — made from 200 pounds of crabmeat, eggs, breadcrumbs, and seasoning — produced 584 crab cake sandwiches at the Maryland State Fair on September 1.

If you want to create your own mammoth crab cake, the crustacean isn't all that difficult to capture. According to the New York Times, the best time to catch crabs is "during the new moon and the first quarter and the full moon." They are most abundant not too far from deep water where they thrive in three to five feet of water. You need plenty of bait (clams, meat, fish) to draw them into nets.

At the moment, Handy International has not received its official award from Guinness World Records, as the documents are under review.